KINGSTON, Jamaica — The High Commission of Canada has welcomed Jamaica’s joining of the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention.

The Convention came into force today, the first day of Child Month.
The formally titled “Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction” it is a multilateral treaty seeking to protect children under the age of 16 years from the harmful effects of their wrongful removal or retention.

According to a release from the Canadian High Commission, Jamaica deposited its instrument of accession and became the Convention’s 97th Contracting State on February 24, 2017.

The High Commission said Jamaica’s joining to the Convention is an important development in the global effort to address international parental child abduction.

It said Canada looks forward to the implementation of the Convention in Jamaica and stands ready to share its experience with the Government.

The purpose of this update is to correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, to explain and comment on published Judgments of family cases and to highlight other transparency news.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching a project aimed at reshaping the news media — and tackling the scourge of misinformation — using the same collaborative principles as the revolutionary online encyclopedia.

Wikitribune will rely on a broad online community of journalists and readers as fact checkers, a crowdsourcing model pioneered in the “wiki” system behind Wikipedia.

“The news is broken and we can fix it,” reads the website of the project unveiled by Mr Wales late Monday, describing itself as focused on “evidence-based journalism.”

On Twitter, Mr Wales called it “a news platform that brings journalists & volunteers together for fact-based articles with real impact.”

“Wikitribune takes professional, standards-based journalism and incorporates the radical idea from the world of Wiki that a community of volunteers can and will reliably protect and improve articles.”

The new service will be free, without advertising, relying on contributions from users in the…

Saturday afternoon was a peculiar occurrence: Had you been invited to Zeke’s birthday party in Spring Hill, Tennessee, then you would have seen both me and my wife there together, at the same time. That doesn’t happen often!

This is the part of the blog post where you either A) instantly identify with this concept, or B) are very confused right now as to why seeing a happily married couple together in public is an odd phenomenon.

In case you fall into the 2nd category, which I doubt you do if you are reading this, here’s how it works:

My wife and I both work full-time jobs in which we both have to commute about 2 hours round trip. Not to mention, we both are responsible for housework. While my wife definitely carries the heavier part of that burden, I also work two side jobs for supplemental income: this…